Trot line holder

ABSTRACT

A trot line holder for carrying a trot line and the stages to be secured thereto having a base member and a reel and a pair of coaxially mounted rotatable tables thereon, adapted to receive the stages and maintain them ready to be mounted on the line after the line is set, said tables having means for receiving and maintaining the hooks of the respective stages in hook-receiving slots and the connecting pins of the respective stages in pinreceiving ports, preventing a tangle of stages while the line is being transported.



1. A trot line holder having a stationary base member, spaced tables rotatably mounted on said base member, a reel mounted on one of said tables, and another of said tables having means for receiving hooks of stages to be mounted on a trot line, and another table having means for receiving the pins of said stages.
 2. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said base member supports said tables in spaced relation by means of telescoping shafts between said tables and an axial shaft extending through part of said tables.
 3. The device defined in claim 1 wherein the uppermost of said tables is provided with a series of upwardly projecting spaced teeth on the outer periphery thereof, and a series of vertical ports in alignment with the spaces between said teeth.
 4. The device defined in claim 1 wherein the uppermost of said tables is provided with a series of upwardly projecting spaced teeth on the outer periphery thereof, and a series of vertical ports in horizontal alignment with the spaces between said teeth, and the intermediate table is provided with a downwardly extended peripheral flange having spaced horizontal ports extending therethrough in vertical alignment with the spaces between said teeth.
 5. The device defined in claim 1 wherein a cover for said device is provided having yieldable means mounted therein to bear against the uppermost table, and means for anchoring said cover in position on said base member. 